Catalog entry

R.C and N.M. Vose, Boston

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, October 19, 1928

The Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio, Special Exhibition of Ship Portraits, November 3–28, 1929.

Hopkins Center Gallery, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, Dartmouth College American Art Exhibition, August 1–November 1, 1966.

John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 44.

American Federation of Arts, Isetan Art Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 19th Century American Landscape Painting, February 1–June 15, 1979.

National Gallery of Art, Washington, District of Columbia, American Light: The Luminist Movement, 1850–1875, February 10–June 15, 1980.

Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida, Americans and the Sea, September 10–October 30, 1982.

The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, The Book of Nature: American Painters and the Natural Sublime, October 27, 1983–January 4, 1984.

American Federation of Arts, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Sounding the Depths: 150 Years of American Seascape, June 15–August 27, 1989.
Traveled to: The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Fla., 15, 1989–14, 1990; Art Museum of Southern Texas, Corpus Christi, Tex., 23–26, 1989; Columbus Museum, Columbus, Ga., 2, 1990–27, 1991; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio, 9–4, 1990; The Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Fla., 17–21, 1990; Museum of Art, Science, and Industry, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn., 25–20, 1990.

Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania, Icons of Industry, October 6, 1991–January 5, 1992.

The Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Butler Institute of American Art, September 12–November 21, 1993.

IBM Gallery of Science and Art, New York, New York, Highlights from the Butler Institute of American Art, February 9–April 10, 1993.

Eaton Fine Art, Inc., Palm Beach, Florida, Masterpieces from the Butler Collection in Palm Beach, Florida, January 28–February 6, 1999.

The Butler Institute of American Art, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, American Anthem: 300 Years of Painting from the Butler Institute of American Art, April 14–June 17, 2001.
Traveled to: Lauren Rogers Museum, Laurel, Miss., 3–19, 2001; Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 8–18, 2001; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tenn., 15, 2001–24, 2002; Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Fla., 7, 2002–9, 2003.

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, Florida, Ships and Shorelines: William Bradford and Nineteenth-Century American Marine Painting, January 30–May 30, 2010.

Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 44, Ship "Starlight" in the Fog.

Hill, Frederick D. "The Butler Institute of American Art." Antiques (1978).

"The Magic of Museums: The Butler Institute of American Art." Ohio Magazine (1981).

"Critics Praise Butler's Midyear." Youngstown Vindicator (1982).

Hoffman, Katherine. "The Art of Fitz Hugh Lane." Essex Institute Historical Collections 119 (1983)., p. 35, Ship "Starlight" in the Fog.

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed. Master Paintings from the Butler Institute of American Art. With consulting editors William H. Gerdts and Louis A. Zona. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1994., pp. 72–73.

Sweetkind, Irene S., ed. The Butler Institute of American Art: Index of the Permanent Collection. Youngstown, OH: The Butler Institute of American Art, 1997., p. 105.

Dictionary of American Art. London: Macmillan Ltd., 1998.

Wilton, Andrew, and Tim Barringer. American Sublime: Landscape Painting in the United States, 1820–1880. London: Tate Publishing, 2002., cat. 69, ill. in color, p. 195, text, pp. 194, 254, 270, "Starlight" in Fog.

Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 93, Ship "Starlight" in the Fog.

Conrads, Margaret C. ed. Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: American Painting to 1945. Vol. 1. Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum, 2007.

Wolfe, M. Melissa, ed. Masterworks from the Butler Institute of American Art. Youngstown, OH: The Butler Institute of American Art, 2010., p. 226.